These last 11 days on site have been exhausting, nerve-wracking, fun and extremely educational. Todd wasted no time and threw me into the deep end. I have a variety of duties: general admin stuff (organize registers, send emails, etc), surveying field work, and surveying office work. I have to say that the last two are definitely my favorite. My field work is pretty basic at the moment. I go out with a device that receives GPS signal and a controller for the device to measure points. There are people on site who test the soil in different areas to make sure it conforms to specific guidelines and I go out with them and measure exactly where they do those tests. Make sense? I also helped Todd and Russ a bit with some other field work but it is a lot to take in all at once.
My surveying office work has to do with this program called Terramodel that Todd is an absolute genius with. Basically I take the points I measured out in the field and import them into the program so they can be seen on the design of the site. Of course I am oversimplifying things a bit, but it is pretty basic stuff and I now have it down pat. Todd is a fantastic teacher and has started me on these basic plans but I am already progressing to learn more and more complex commands. Apparently I am already helping out heaps as he said the other day that I am already more valuable as a surveying assistant than as an admin person and if it was just us, he would have to hire someone else so my time wasn't occupied by silly stuff. Honestly, it is just incredibly fun to learn more about what he does and tackle a whole new industry! It is all part of my plan for world domination, well orange-clothed world domination anyways... :)
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